Counterfeit Swinging Sticks

BEWARE COUNTERFEIT PRODUCTS!

There have been many recent instances of counterfeit Swinging Sticks throughout the internet. Most of these products originate in China and India and are made ​​from low-grade plastic and are not precision machined. These products are of inferior grade and will not last as long, or may even begin to make clinking noises due to imperfect construction.

Before you decide to shop around and buy one of the cheaper Swinging Sticks on the internet, you should read the following information.

Its Illegal

First of all, buying counterfeit products is illegal. We have permission to sell the Swinging Sticks from the patent holder. These patents are held in America, the World Intellectual Property Organization and China for the authentic Swinging Sticks.

We also sell the Swinging Sticks at the lowest price allowed by the manufacturer at $289.99 USD.

American Patents

Chinese Patents

WIPO Patents

Sometimes these websites may even feature fake patents (see side bar). This patent looks real, however upon further research it is deemed to be an infringing fake.

At the Swinging Sticks, we only sell authentic, legitimate products. These may cost a little more but thats because they are built to last. Stood head to head for 6 months straight, the counterfeit Swinging Sticks had to have its batteries changed and the brackets started making small noises.

Faulty Components

The electronic system that powers the Swinging Sticks sculpture through magnets also is made of inferior grade in the counterfeit sculptures which will not last as long as the real one will (for life we hope).

The real Swinging Sticks is made with a wooden base, either painted matte black or in the bamboo style. The fake Swinging Sticks are made with a plastic base and are often not created with machine precision. These are likely to be loose and hastily constructed with inferior materials. This decreases the quality of the product.

The counterfeit products bought on other websites also do not have a 5 year manufacturers warranty against all product defects that we offer our customers. We actually have many instances of people trying to get counterfeit Swinging Sticks exchanged. The differences are easily noticed between them, but in order to ensure product authenticity, each item is laser inscribed with a unique serial number.

Laser Imprinted Serial Numbers

The real Swinging Sticks comes with a unique authentic serial number and a 5 year manufacturers warranty against any factory defects or problems, whereas the counterfeit products often have no warranty program and fall apart within 6 months to a year. These products of made of inferior parts such as bearings and other electrical components. The shoddy nature of these parts often causes the Swinging Sticks to prematurely fail.

Counterfeit Identifier

+ Packaging (Exterior)

The packaging on the counterfeit Swinging Sticks is one of the first key indicators that you were sold a fake product. Usually they come in cardboard boxes or with the light blue design.

The packaging as you can see varies incredibly from the authentic Swinging Sticks

Fake Swinging Sticks

Real Swinging Sticks

Cant beat the look and feel of the real packaging. Just one look at you'll know that ours were delivered to you withe utmost care.

+ Packaging (Interior)

Next, the design of the interior is also different, usually with a yellow cloth draped over the sculpture. The real Swinging Sticks comes in a white styrofoam casing in order to protect it against damage during shipment.

Fake Swinging Sticks

Real Swinging Sticks

+ Base

Another key difference between the counterfeit and real Swinging Sticks is the presence of a plastic base instead of a high quality polished wooden one.

These plastic bases are often as cheap as the components inside them and are not precision machined in order to be absolutely perfect.

Fake Swinging Sticks

Real Swinging Sticks

+ Battery Cover

A major difference between the real and fake Swinging Sticks is the lack of a cover on the batteries for the real sculpture. The counterfeit products have a plastic snap off piece that covers the batteries on the plastic base.

Not only do the real Swinging Sticks not have a plastic base, but they also do not have a battery cover.

Fake Swinging Sticks

Real Swinging Sticks

+ Serial Numbers

All of the authentic Swinging Sticks kinetic energy sculptures come with laser imprinted holographic serial numbers to aid in weeding out fakes. This laser serial number is your key to the 5 year warranty and is lacking on the counterfeit products.

+ Fake Patents

Finally, many of the websites that sell the fake Swinging Sticks sculptures will advertise a fake patent on their websites in an attempt to gain legitimacy. These patents are fake and upon further research prove to be invalid.

Here at the Swinging Sticks we have permission from the sole patent holders to sell this unique sculpture. The Swinging Sticks is backed by real design and copyright patents in the WIPO and United States Patent Office

Counterfeit Patent

Report a Counterfeiter

If you have bought a counterfeit Swinging Sticks product, feel free to contact us at the following email address and report where you got it from. We will take care of the counterfeiter.

The Swinging Sticks are backed by design patents in the WIPO, China and the USA and any buying or selling of counterfeit products is illegal. We help prosecute all counterfeiters to the fullest extent of the law.